We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in "the social" our historic passio...ns have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial cosiness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No real "vital" character in fiction is altogether a conscious construction of the author. On the contrary, it may be a sort of pa...rasitic growth upon the author's personality, developing by internal necessity as much as by external addition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is paras...itic to this extent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and gl...ancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and ...antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,--not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »